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Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 9 September 2025UIN 71960

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the level of the increase in the NHS backlog at Hinchingbrooke Hospital following strike action by resident doctors in July 2025.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The Department of Health and Social Care has not made a formal estimate of the level of increases in NHS waiting lists at individual hospital site level.

NHS England regularly publishes its Referral to Treatment Waiting Times every month, which are available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/rtt-data-2025-26/. This data goes down to provider level, but not individual hospital site level.

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